Memories by Fred

“We used to get considerable harassment; the police would leave us
alone for a period and then visit the bars. They would come in plain
clothes, clear everyone out, and for a while that bar would be dead as
we would find another bar to go to. They di...

Fred went out much more in the 1950s to the Imperial Hotel, “a great
big square bar, open every night, usually full of gay people. There
were two bar maids, Molly, and Edith, who was a misery, they used to
call her 'Vinegar Tits'"....

Fred recalls “Some Brummies would go to Walsall on the bus, some
had cars, but I used to go to Aunty’s Bar in Walsall in Tarantella
Street, we’d catch the bus, which was absolutely packed of a weekend.
They were purely pubs, drinking, no dancing, no ...